Beeple gives away all of his Cinema 4D Scene Files

Mike Winkelmann of BEEPLE fame is graciously giving away his Cinema 4D files for you to learn from and even use in your own projects. There are tons of fun Visuals and experiments to play with, but the most interesting for me is that he also has the scenes from the videos above available for download. In particular, check out the simple yet great lighting and animation in his SUBPRIME scene. Or, check out all the textures and detail in the “instrumental video nine” scene. I have always learned so much by picking apart other’s project files. It’s great to see how others set up their scenes. Make sure you give Mike a shout if you use any of his scene or his ideas in your own work. Thanks for sharing, Mike. High Five!

Thanks a lot for sharing this & high five Mike.
Nick, are you planning on making a tutorial on one of your favourite Beeple projects. Seems like a challenge for you.
Awesome blog by the way. You have learned me virtually everything about Cinema 4D.

people have been doing that with greyscale and videocopilot tuts for years now. if there are people out there who are going to change one little thing, claim it as their own and then try to get a job i would hope that said employer would be wise enough to educate themselves as to what is out there. i can spot bs from a mile away. agreed, though, mike is brave and yes, people will claim it as their own.

I would think even if it did get someone a minor job they would be unable to ship anything of quality, which would weed them out of the mix pretty quick. I would even feel sorry for someone who pretends to have Nick or Andrew’s technical nd design knowledge and then has to produce something on that level! I personally don’t think we have to worry about thieves ruining it for the rest of us – having to produce another Subprime or Instrumental Video Nine without talent is punishment enough for those folks!

But for the majority of people these open project files and the spirit they embody are more valuable than most classes could ever wish to be. Even an average project becomes great when all its secrets are laid bare for people to learn from! I am just learning Cinema and some of the 5 sec. project files people have shared have taught me so much!

Absolutely amazing. I can’t thank you enough. I have to admit my noobness though and ask how to view the keyframes… when I go to the timeline I see nothing there. Same as for the objects… not all of them are in the objects window. What is the obvious thing I’m missing?

I love the Instrument Video Nine! Mostly because it resembles an idea Ive been kicking around in my head for a while. I downloaded the project file…as generously donated by Mike. But I cant figure out how it was animated. I am admittedly a novice @C4D but I was hoping to learn how the thing was rigged, and how he got the pieces to do what they do. When I open it however there is no object information or clear way of animation (atleast to me)just a camera in the object window. Am I missing something here?
Thanks for posting the link Nick.. and any answers would be greatly appreciated!

Ha Weird we wrote almost the exact same thing at the same time, because I read all the posts before commenting and did not see yours!
Glad I’m not alone.. hoping a veteran can school us or maybe the file is just simply not designed to show everything..

Great ressources at this link ! Especially, I love the VJing material and I’m very excited to have a look inside some of these (like ‘vcribbon’ or ‘nodes’)
It’s awesome. But i’m still waiting for another great tutorial from yours…

these are great but way way beyond my skill level.
It will take me weeks just to figure out the basics here…
Still what a great guy Mike Winkelmann is for sharing this, even if it currently just shows me how much i still have to learn in Cinema 🙂

Wow, I didn’t realize this was all done in C4D! For me, being a new C4D user, it’s really important to know what’s -possible- to do with the software. So many great videos don’t even mention what software was used, let alone offer a project file to learn from. It’s possible that just open sourcing his stuff is going to be even better for Beeple than the act of making amazing work has been. Beeple has a true artist’s spirit and I hope it all pays off huge for him!

I LOVE his style and how he solves problems. He’s like the Bukowski of C4D, making work so good and intuitive that for a second you actually think you could do that yourself!

This has been a major eye-opener! I finally get to see a nice lighting model in action and learn from it. Goes to show you don’t need Vray to produce some awesome lighting conditions. AR3 is a champ.

Going over the instrument scene, it seems that with all of the repetition going on with a lot of the machine movements, it could have really benefited from some Xpresso controllers. I see he copy and pasted the keyframes for each part movement. Just strikes me as a time saver to put them into controllers first, then go about animating.

But still! Amazing stuff! Also an eye-opener about modeling. Modeling has been my greatest weakness. Seems that he just used mostly primitives. Guess I’ve been going about it all wrong.

Oh boy that’s so cool! I’m glad that more and more designers whom do this kind of art be willing to share it and be happy just by helping people and getting tons of congrats.
So, yes, sadly there will be lame fakers, but also there will be new outstanding work, only possible by this generous and very welcomed knowledge. Thanks Nick!

I think it would be awesome if you did a tutorial on how he adds the different information windows in AAE on the Instrumental Video 9. I’ve always wondered how to do that and I think it would be really cool to add to videos.

Unbelievable. What a treasure. My English is not good enough to express my excitement about all this here. Thank you, thank you, thank you! People like you make me believe that the world is getting better.